Frameworks

Question the Requirement

Delete the requirement before you optimise the part

Amara's Law

Judge a new technology on a 20-year clock, not a 2-year one

Problems, Conjectures, Criticism

Start from a problem, guess a solution, then attack your own guess.

Conjecture Over Induction

Create knowledge by guessing boldly and killing errors, never by extrapolating the trend.

Experiment, Demonstration, Measurement

Only call it an experiment when two rival explanations are actually at stake.

Trial, Error, Feedback: The Four Conditions for Innovation

Audit any place, company, or domain for the four conditions innovation actually requires.

Hard to Vary

Test a design by trying to change it: a finished one resists every variation

The Internal Software Factory

Put software engineers on architecture and let domain experts vibe-code their own tools.

The Invention vs Innovation Split

Separate the 1% prototype from the 99% work that makes it cheap, reliable, and adopted.

Opinionated Simplicity

Remove every choice you can; each user decision is an abdication of your judgement.

Error-Theory-First Experimentation

Spend most of the effort theorising the errors before trusting any measurement

The Possible and Impossible Reframe

Describe a system by which transformations it permits, not by what it will do next

The Explanatory Leap

Criticize ideas in your head to jump gaps that trial-and-error can never cross.

The Personal App Store

Ship one-shot custom apps to your own phone instead of settling for someone else's.

The Disobedience Test for Creativity

Test creativity by whether it can break the rules it was handed.

LSD Mode: The Vector-Space Collider

Cross unaligned vector spaces over your own corpus, then re-rank the collisions for ideas.

The EIP Change Pipeline

Move a protocol change through staged consent instead of a single decision

The What-Is-Your-Problem Test

Judge researchers and founders by the problem they name, not the result they promise